Hallowe'en

Not a great time of the year for Lyme. Well, not that there's a good time for Lyme, but....  Hallowe'en is an excellent reminder because it's really just supposed to be FUN. (This year I was Sleeping Beauty. Probably with less 'beauty' and more 'zombie' - although 16 hours sleep might add some points...)  

Also the no sugar* (healthy fuel, healthy body.... we only had a little left over 😋) and no alcohol (stops medication working), um, and no energy really take the fun out of it.

... Can I just take a moment to point out I've not had a SINGLE cocktail since May? Not ONE drop of alcohol. Psychic mother even cut short my mental arithmetic in a restaurant as I was attempting to calculate the half life of this really really really really tempting cocktail and whether it would be out of my system by the time I infused my next dose of antibiotics. Imagine:

Scene:

'HARVEST'

Local & organic 'farm-to-table restaurant

LONG ANTICIPATED FIRST VISIT 

(Anti-nausea medications perfectly timed -  I was HUNGRY!)

ME: [silently thinking] I could eat almost anything on this menu... so many veggie choices!  Organic cheeses! Wild caught fish!** Grain bowls.... quinoa! Wild rice! This must be how a normal person feels when they could have practically ANYTHING from a menu*...
How do they choose?!

[turns page] 

oohhhhh, those cocktails sound so good.... green tea with cucumber vodka & lime... I wonder how many units of alcohol in a martini glass here? I could have it tall.... I wonder if antioxidants in green tea cancel anything out? I wonder what the half-life of vodka is... [reach for phone, unlock screen...]

PSYCHIC MOTHER: [barely glances up] Don't bother calculating how long it will take to get a cocktail out your system.... you have blood tests in the morning, they'll still show alcohol.

ME: I was just looking.... 
😲

 [thinks] Damn. Blood tests. Forgot about those. But wait..... HOW DID SHE KNOOOOW??!! 

*Limited diet: general super healthy diet supports treatment; some treatment protocols follow specific diets
**Yes, technically I'm 'pescatarian', but I think it sounds a tad pretentious. And super-extra hipster...

Now THAT'S spooky!

PSYCHIC MOTHER
My Dad used to joke to my Mum, "If your mother was a witch...." & trail off
Not sure if he got scared 😉 or realized he was saying it about me too...😜
But this photo is just too good....!!
(Don't have to be psychic to guess she's not going to love it as much as I do.)

Back to today.... there's dressing up in elaborate costumes (yourself, house, child, dog... whatever)/ the excuse to dress up or wear crazy make up if you like doing so, but need the excuse! And the million different Pinterest ideas you just HAVE to try one day (mostly baking - with more sugar). None of those is especially 'Lyme-friendly' (it's that 'I need energy' thing).  I didn't even get pumpkin carving this year... putting a hacksaw & 'the sharpest knife I can find' in either hand didn't seem like the best idea... A little decorating, joint effort:

The American 'Happy Halloween'
does puzzle me...

I did binge watch Stranger Things 2, at the weekend, of course, (it's SO good!) because my weekends are for resting right now: "resting enables healing"- not something I usually embrace, but thank you Netflix!  But (no spoilers) while attempting a couple of 'very simple' Pinterest Halloween projects in the garage; there was scratching in the roof space above my head, and the first image that popped into my head was a demogorgon. I mean, not consciously, a good story just stays with you, right?! 

At least I still have 2 arms ;-)

I have to admit, anything I manage to do successfully with my arm (arms.... PICC line has been a bit uncomfortable too, I've had to be extra careful with it) feels like an accomplishment - even wrapping some toilet roll around a football & a mannequin or sticking some sticks through a flower pot & some bin bags! And some creative results... in the dark!

Quite honestly, these were because I was determined not to fall asleep after physio, as napping
 seems to be messing up my sleep. I thought (hoped!) I'd sleep at a 'normal' time if I made myself
 stay awake - of course,  I never learn... didn't work!

 But my Pinterest 'shadow witches' didn't look too bad! (In the dark.)

On my hunt for Halloween quotes - specifically Shakespeare's witches from Macbeth,  I decided I like this one from Tim Burton instead. It feels like it could have many applications and feels more fitting with my blog. I definitely feel like I dress up some (most?!) days - my true self is still in bed, sleeping. Sometimes, especially this year, it feels like my brain stays with it!

"Every day is Halloween, 

isn't it? For some of us..."

~ Tim Burton ~